# Gandhi’s South African journalism prints hierarchical remarks about Africans

Date: 1906

## The fact

In the South African years, including around 1906, Gandhi’s journalism and petitions repeatedly distinguished Indians from Africans in language that treated the latter as lower in civilisation and as a political other. It is not a criminal conviction and not a reason to delete satyagraha rows.

## Context

A colour-bar victim can still write a colour bar downward. 2018 campus controversies did not invent the quotations. They also did not turn every 1906 sentence into a 1948 policy. Keep the texts, keep the date, do not sanitise.

[Mahatma Gandhi](/people/mahatma-gandhi) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archival, ashram, or government pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: South African History Online — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi; South African History Online).

## Significance

Do not invent a massacre. Do not write that he was a civil-rights saint for Africans on this evidence.

Do not invent a massacre. Do not write that he was a civil-rights saint for Africans on this evidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Mahatma Gandhi: https://factrail.ai/people/mahatma-gandhi

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/racist-gandhi-statue-removed-from-university-of-ghana
- https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-south-africa-african-writings